7.8

CVE-2026-63793: ntfs: serialize volume label accesses

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-63793DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63793
Published 19-07-2026Last modified 17-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-63793 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11339-1

Timeline

  1. 19-07-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: serialize volume label accesses Protect vol->volume_label with a mutex and snaphost the label before copy_to_user. This prevent a use-after-free when FS_IOC_SETFSLABEL replaces the vol->volume_label and FS_IOC_GETTSLABEL reads it concurrently.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.17% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu101 products
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.13All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 9c87959601e80b39a45250e362e6ddfec17cb0fa, < acd744019460bad22e43d4569a502f9c88d331ae | ≥ 9c87959601e80b39a45250e362e6ddfec17cb0fa, < e9e50ce4f13dc721014af622613409455c734942 | 7.1
  • linux_kernel≥ 7.1, < 7.1.3
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.1.3-1

3 vendors · 104 products

References

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